Knee Deep Birdhouse Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $39
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Such an underrated style, Margaret River Shiraz, and usually great buying. This one certainly is. The team split the fruit into two batches – one fermented with 100% whole berries; the other was half whole berries and half crushed for fermentation. Fourteen months of French oak maturation followed. A deep red hue with a lighter rim. The wine has quite a spicy nose with red fruits, herbs, plums, florals, a touch of white pepper, raspberries, smoked meats and cherries. The oak has melded immaculately. Showing good length and bright acidity, the structure is seamless and there are very fine sleek tannins. Enjoy this now and for the next seven or eight years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
